Bobble

The tradition & historical record

In knitting, a bobble is a localized set of stitches forming a raised bump. The bumps are usually arranged in a regular geometrical pattern (e.g., a hexagonal grid) or may be figurative, e.g., represent apples on a knitted tree. The basic idea of a bobble is to increase into a single stitch, knit a few short rows, then decrease back to a single stitch. However, this leaves many choices: how to increase and how many stitches, how many short rows to work, and how to decrease. A bobble can also be a yarn pom-pom used to decorate knitted items such as bobble hats. ¹

The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Bobble (knitting)”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. ¹

Bobble is form of stitching in knitting, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. ²

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